Obama's playing it like Jackie Robinson...

[WCGreen]

Calm, cool collected...

It took Jackie a couple of games to get started...

A couple of stolen plays and turned double plays to win over his team mates...

A pennant and MVP award to win over the Country...

[redstate_democrat]

1. Why do black people have to always play it docile and meek? Why can't black people

be judged as simple human beings who have emotions just like everyone else? Obama shouldn't have to play it like Jackie Robinson in TWO THOUSAND FUCKING EIGHT!

*throws papers across the desk*





:evilgrin:

[Schema Thing]

4. so you think he's more like Ali?

[ecstatic]

5. lol

[Hekate]

9. "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee" -- Yeah. That one.

:evilgrin:

Hekate

[WCGreen]

7. In case you hadn't heard, there is a lot of racial crap going through

the country right now.

Granted, it is a lot more covert than in Robinson's time, but it is still there and the whole reason I brought it up is Obama is playing it cool, just like Robinson did.

Not letting any of it take away from his game plan.

[political_Dem]

24. Thank Goodness someone noticed about the issue regarding emotions.

I imagine how people would be if they ever saw Obama angry. Do they even know how stressful it is trying to keep one's emotions in check so it doesn't appear "menacing" and "scary".

It gets tiring.

[PBS Poll-435]

2. I love unnecessary analogies!

Oh wait, I don't.

[WCGreen]

18. Oh wait, it's valid...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. You bet he is...

[Captain Hilts]

6. Jackie took a whole lot more shit than Sen. Obama's had to take.

In college.
In the army.
In baseball.
In housing.

[WCGreen]

8. For sure...

But he played it cool all the way...

[Captain Hilts]

10. Cool was a whole lot tougher for Jackie.

The comparison serves neither man well.

[Skittles]

11. I agree

[WCGreen]

19. You see I'm a baseball fan and I think it does play well...

So you have your opinion and I have mine...

And I think Obama would love to be compared to Jackie Robinson.

[Chovexani]

12. what is this West Side Story?

Don't get hot
cause man you got
some high times ahead
take it slow and daddy-o
you can live it up and die in bed

[WCGreen]

14. That was the best song in the movie...

The best dancing...

The best cinematography...

Obama is so cool and Robinson was ice.

[islandmkl]

13. for the naysayers:

baseball being the 'American game' and all...it still wasn't so engrossing that even half of the country paid close attention...

i would say that barack has about 50 - you pick a number - MILLION people that not only won't vote for him, including a large percentage that actually either HATE or FEAR him....

because, like Jackie and Ali and Martin and nearly every person who has had to step up into the limelight to try to make a big difference in the way we conduct our daily business in this 'democracy' and have been chastised, persecuted, scorned and, many times, physically harmed...

he is black...

yeah, we've come a long way...like the guy said to me at the Obama tampa rally when i asked him if he thought he would live to see this day: "I didn't think my grandkids would live to see this day."

in reflection, a bittersweet comment...we both know we aren't there, yet...

[WCGreen]

16. Baseball was THE sport back then....

There was nothing else outside of College football that even came close.

Almost every town had an organized baseball team competing in some sort of league against surrounding towns.

[BlooInBloo]

15. OMFG. *** THAT'S *** what JR means to you?? Fucking pathetic.

[WCGreen]

17. Well, that's enlighting...

[BlooInBloo]

21. A smidge more enlighenting than your white-washed OP.

[WCGreen]

22. What do you mean by that...

[BlooInBloo]

20. self-delete - wrong branch

[HEyHEY]

23. I thought you meant he was gonna run for mayor of montreal

[WCGreen]

25. It's just that a lot of the racists then and now expected something different

And when Robinson just came to play baseball, he won over a whole bunch of people.

There is a great novel about that year by Pete Hamill.

I think there were a lot of skeptical people when Obama first came on the scene.

He played it cool, just ran as a progressive democrat and won the day.